I do think almost every law should have a “sunset” clause of ten-fifteen years, and cannot in truth think of an exception. Murder may not be a good exmple, laws involving various forms of homicide are reviewed even more often than a “sunset” provision would provide. largely because they get fairly heavily publicised. In doing some research on an unrekated topic a few years ago, I came to realise that in my State the law against women sitting in a bar (passed circa 1912) was still in effect!

Another example which actually does show up in the news regularly today would be marijuana. While I probably would not support complete legalization, it should certainly be moved from the compete-ban section of Federal law to one of the regulated sections. The complete ban is on the basis of being “of no medical use” which may have been true in the early 1950s, but derivatives are now in regular use in medicine while at the same time traditionalist sailors cannot import hemp[en] ropes/lines from Canada.

Even fundamental laws needs a review and refresh once in a while. The sunset provisions would enforce this.